No matter the topic, there’s always the flipside. Politics? The liberal view versus the conservative view. Religion? Scores of interpretations. How to build the better app? Fee versus free, with imbedded links. So when it comes to communication, the same…
HR Communications
What Do You Do When Your Preliminary Data Comes Back to Haunt You?
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where someone (usually your boss or a higher-up) makes an announcement or a decision using draft or preliminary figures that you had given them some time ago? Only today the correct figures are different…
Engagement Surveys: It’s What You Do About the Results That Counts
Does each of your employees know how their job contributes to the big picture? Are you truly interested in their input? The answers too often are no to both of these questions, which is bad for employers. An employer with…
At Sprout Social, Getting Coffee Is a Teambuilder
Alan Boyce, the VP of engineering at Sprout Social, averages three coffees a day. You might think he’s just a run of the mill office caffeine junky, or perhaps that he’s attempting to dodge his work with frequent coffee breaks….
What Do Company Values Mean In the Wake of Charlottesville?
Editor’s note: The following post by the editors of Knowledge@Wharton is a report on a podcast discussion by Wharton’s Americus Reed and Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of the business fallout from the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. The podcast can be…
7 Strategies For HR People to Speak Up and Be Heard
Janet is a human resource manager who’s lost her mojo when it comes to asserting herself in her newest position. “I’ve become afraid to speak up when I should,” she confessed to me. She’s not alone – I hear this…
The Opioid Crises: What Do You Do When Tragedy Strikes a Coworker?
Today we’re seeing an upsurge in deaths that are unusual in both cause and in the age of the deceased. The prescription opioid crises, which claimed 15,000 lives in 2015 is affecting families and employers; it became one of the…
7 Steps to Successful Technology Adoption
So you’ve decided to implement new technology (ERPs, EHRs, SaaS, mobile, cloud, etc.) within your organization – congrats! New technology can definitely make your organization more effective and productive, but only if the people within your organization actually use the…
3 Steps to Building Engagement Among Your Hourly Workers
It’s time to stop taking the hourly employee for granted. Despite the fact that hourly employees are nearly 60% of the US workforce, leaders have a tendency to discount them when formulating their employee engagement strategies. The high turnover in…
Are You Treating Open Enrollment as a Step-Child?
Benefits may not be the glamorous part of human resources, but for employees, benefits rank right up there with pay in importance. A mediocre benefits package can lose you a great candidate. Eight out of 10 employees would choose new…
How HR Can Leverage Technology to Help Employees Cope With a Merger
“Dear colleagues, I’m excited to announce that we’ve agreed to be acquired by Company X! We have an exciting future ahead and are looking forward to sharing more information in short order.” – Executive Leader, Company Y Historically, HR has…
7 Techniques to Make You More Persuasive
Communication has become one of the most important – and effective – means of influence for leaders and those who aspire to be leaders. Long-gone are the days when leaders could outsource their communications to HR or through PR missives….
From Shrinking Violet to Purple Cow: Getting HR to Tell Its Own Story
I am not talking about posting articles online about your employee brand to attract talent. What I am talking about, is that when it comes to publicizing HR’s value and achievements internally, I have and still do find it wanting….
How This 4,100 Employee Company Is Using Facebook to Stay In Touch
Note: SoftServe is a digital services and software development company, headquartered in Austin, Tx and in Lviv, Ukraine. The author, Stuart Logan, is the company’s CHRO. ∼∼∼∼ SoftServe has a history of finding efficient, collaborative and engaging communication tools for…
HR Roundtable: What Keeps HR and Marketing Apart?
This month’s Roundtable (in Cincinnati) took the chance to cross business lines and discuss the relationship, or lack of one, between HR and marketing. It was time to start having more of these discussions of HR within a business context,…
Communication Failure May Be Keeping Workers From Wellness Programs
A new study hopes to settle the debate regarding workplace health promotion and whether or not it’s good for employers to get involved with employees’ wellness. Turns out, good or bad, there’s a communication breakdown. Around two-thirds of workers surveyed are happy…
What We Can Learn About Branding From a Super Bowl Commercial
I could not click to exit the You Tube ad to get to the music video. I was spellbound. “Man…I want to see this movie,” I thought, and looked forward to sending the link to a couple of friends who…
HR Roundtable: How HR Can Engage Executives
The December HR Roundtable (in Cincinnati) discussed a topic that is often overlooked in general, but gossiped about often. We don’t know how to communicate effectively with the executive leadership of our companies. In the hallways conversations occur with little…
Fake News Afflicts the Workplace Too
The recent weeks have offered quite a bit of discussion and debate about “fake news.” It’s apparent many people just accept what they hear and read as fact when in reality, the truth is missing from those “facts.” What is…
IT Fails to Plan; Disney Doesn’t Want You Pointing and Gossip Is How They Find Out
Sure it’s hard to recruit software developers and other tech professionals. There’s just not enough of them to meet the demand.So knowing that, what do you do? You wait until the last minute to begin recruiting them. That’s what a…